Everything We Know So Far About The New ThunderCats Movie

All three ThunderCats series involve the heroes escaping the destruction of their home of Thundera (in some cases a planet, in one a kingdom) and finding themselves forced to survive in the wilds of a planet known as Third Earth. Leader Lion-O, along with Tygra, Cheetara, Panthro, and twins Wilykit and Wilykat and the pet/mascot Snarf, battle the evil sorceror Mumm-Ra, his mutants, and other assorted villains of the week using a variety of weapons and vehicles, including Lion-O's magical Sword of Omens.

While the animated series –– almost certainly the 1980s one, given Wingard's age –– will be used as a jumping off point, Wingard admits he's been preparing for this job for decades. "I was writing my ThunderCats screenplay through my entire 10th grade year," he told Deadline, "And I was hand-writing it. The screenplay itself ended up being 272 pages long."

No matter how eager Warner Bros. is for this project, they probably didn't greenlight a 4.5-hour-long ThunderCats movie, so it's safe to say adjustments will have to be made to Wingard's original script (not to mention the fact that Coggeshall's screenplay is involved). But the ideas he put down then have had these additional decades to percolate, and now, it seems, they may have a few years more.